Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur
- ISBN-10
- 0805083189
- ISBN-13
- 9780805083187
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-05-29
- Publisher
- Holt Paperbacks
- Author
- Carl Safina
Description
"Magnificent . . . A joyful, hopeful book. Safina gives us ample reasons to be enthralled by this astonishing ancient animal--and ample reasons to care." --Los Angeles Times As Carl Safina's compelling natural history adventure makes clear, the fate of the leatherback turtle is in our hands. The distressing decline of these ancient sea turtles in Pacific waters and their surprising recovery in the Atlantic illuminate the results--both positive and negative--of our interventions and the lessons that can be applied, globally, to restore the oceans and their creatures. We accompany award-winning natural history expert Safina and his colleagues as they track leatherbacks across the world's oceans and onto remote beaches of every continent, including a thrilling journey from Monterey, California, to nesting grounds in Papua, New Guinea. Throughout, in his peerless prose, Safina captures the delicate interaction between these gentle giants and the humans who are playing a significant role in their survival.
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